Android How to Convert Latitude Longitude into Degree format

Question

I want to convert latitude 40.7127837, longitude -74.0059413 and to the following format

N 40°42'46.0218" W 74°0'21.3876"

What is the best way to do that?

I tried methods like location.FORMAT_DEGREES, location.FORMAT_MINUTES and location.FORMAT_SECONDS, but I'm not sure how to convert them to the right format. Thanks.

strLongitude = location.convert(location.getLongitude(), location.FORMAT_DEGREES);
strLatitude = location.convert(location.getLatitude(), location.FORMAT_DEGREES);

Answer 1

If you're facing problems with the inbuilt methods, you can always create your own method:

public static String getFormattedLocationInDegree(double latitude, double longitude) {
    try {
        int latSeconds = (int) Math.round(latitude * 3600);
        int latDegrees = latSeconds / 3600;
        latSeconds = Math.abs(latSeconds % 3600);
        int latMinutes = latSeconds / 60;
        latSeconds %= 60;

        int longSeconds = (int) Math.round(longitude * 3600);
        int longDegrees = longSeconds / 3600;
        longSeconds = Math.abs(longSeconds % 3600);
        int longMinutes = longSeconds / 60;
        longSeconds %= 60;
        String latDegree = latDegrees >= 0 ? "N" : "S";
        String lonDegrees = longDegrees >= 0 ? "E" : "W";

        return  Math.abs(latDegrees) + "°" + latMinutes + "'" + latSeconds
                + "\"" + latDegree +" "+ Math.abs(longDegrees) + "°" + longMinutes
                + "'" + longSeconds + "\"" + lonDegrees;
    } catch (Exception e) {
        return ""+ String.format("%8.5f", latitude) + "  "
                + String.format("%8.5f", longitude) ;
    }
}